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Playing Card Drawer

Random

Builds a fresh standard deck on load, shuffles it with crypto.getRandomValues so each card's position is genuinely uniform, and lets you draw cards off the top. Drawn cards stay drawn — the deck counter goes down — so you can keep dealing until the deck is empty without ever seeing a repeat. Useful for online card games, magic tricks, decisions weighted by suit colour, or just teaching probability.

Deck left: 52

Press Draw to deal cards.

Shuffle uses crypto.getRandomValues + Fisher-Yates. Drawn cards leave the deck until you reset or redraw.

How to use

  1. Set how many cards to draw and whether to include jokers.
  2. "Draw" peels that many off the current deck; "Redraw" reshuffles a fresh deck first.
  3. "Reset" shuffles a fresh deck without drawing anything.

Frequently asked questions

Is the shuffle actually random?
Each swap uses crypto.getRandomValues, which is a CSPRNG in modern browsers. The Fisher-Yates pass touches every position once, so every permutation of the deck is equally likely.
What's the order of cards inside a suit?
A, 2, 3, …, 10, J, Q, K — Ace is treated as 1 (low). If you need ace-high logic for poker rankings, just remember that A and K are at opposite ends.

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